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Sunday, 6 January 2013

Why, oh why, oh why...

... can't I get my head around my thumb??? No, not in a kinky way, but in a knitting way.

The heat has affected my thinking of late, and has turned me towards a quick knit-up project. Susie's Fingerless Reading Mitts to be exact, a popular pattern online, free, and should be quick and easy. So why am I sitting here undoing rows of knitting - it's all in the thumb! Talk about a mental blank (or a Senior's moment) happening.

Now it's not that I can't knit. Over the past years I have made some beautiful knitted jumpers and cardigans for both myself, and Mr made by J...

23 comments:

I can't knit so I'm always impressed by anyone who can. How can you knit warm clothes when it's so hot outside?! Ha ha must be quite relaxing and I suppose easier to take knitting needles poolside than a sewing machine!

I'm not sure what's tripping you up but once you finish the gusset you just put those stitches on a holder add one stitch and continue knitting in the round. The thumb stitches are picked up and worked last. I hope that helps, don't give up you will love them. I have made to many to count so I know you can do it. If you have any other questions I will try to help.

My first pair of mitt-like things was the Nalu Fingerless mitts. I got so mixed up with the pattern on the back of the hand and the thumb increases that I eventually mapped out the entire thing on Excel so that I could keep track of where I was. But after pulling it back so many many times, I'm really good at that type of thumb! I'm itching to make the reading mitts since it can get cool in here and it'd be nice to have something to keep my fingers warm when playing on the computer, but we'll see. I'm looking forward to seeing yours (if you manage to resist the pool and finish them up - I wouldn't blame you if the pool won that battle)!

Just dropped by to give you some top tips on these gloves - but it looks as though you have this sorted now. Once you have all your stitches increased for the thumb, you can knit backwards and forwards on them for the thumb. You would then just cast off the thumb and sew up the seam. You may need to pick up a stitch at the base of the thumb so you don't have any holes - and then just knit two stitches together in the next round to get rib of the extra stitch.